August 2009 Grocery Challenge

Trinny

Hi Everyone

Can you put me down for £190 again. I have gone over this month:mad:
Partly due to OH doing some of the shopping because i have been unwell.

Really hoping to cut things down again - this month we should have been eating out of our freezer - but i find that the freezer has magically stocked itself up again. (Spot the newbie) Most of it was bargains and whoops but we didnt need half of it. Note to self - must be more organised this month. I am trying to get us down to £150 and its not going to happen at this rate

Trin

CommitedToChange

Morning all

Have done my Mr T's health and beauty shop today £1.61 in total, also bought two suns to use the coupons inside so another 40p - but got 80p in coupons from each one :rotfl:

Only have dairy, tins and cat food left for my months shopping and then I can start on my NSD's with a happy fully stocked kitchen

Love the idea of making the mince stretch so far - got some in the fridge so will def try that - thanks.

Phoolgrrrl

Will do first shop of Aug budget tonight. Going to be a stretch I think cuz no meat or fish in. I'm doing the special K thing so thats not normally included. On day 4 and have lost 2lbs
Have to make a pasta salad and a house type salad for a bbq tomorrow so having a nosey for ideas.
Does tuna sweetcorn pasta salad work for a bbq or is fish odd?

Maitane

kezlou wrote: »

Maitane:- Know what you mean my OH and boys are obsessed with meat.They demand it in every meal.
A few things i do is add extra veg, lentils, oats any dodgy veg veg that needs using etc
Another thing is brown lentils they are amazing. Convinced my entire family we were eating beef mince pie, meat stew, instead we were eating all non meat meals. When cooking add a couple of beef stock cubes this really boosts up the "meaty" taste. You can buy vegetarian beef cubes if you wish.

Thanks, that's genius. I'll just have to hope he's not on meat spotting duty that day. Seeing as Mr Maitane came back from a well-known large supermarket having bought an entire turbot last night for tonight's dinner so I now have to find an ingenious way to make a £14 fish stretch to at least two meals, especially when I doubt he's going to like it! :eek:

Ah well. Note to self: even when poorly, don't allow him to the supermarket alone.

Maitane

Phoolgrrrl wrote: »

Does tuna sweetcorn pasta salad work for a bbq or is fish odd?

I always make tuna sweetcorn salad for anything like that but I add cheap feta cheese (or salad cheese as it gets called) and loads of cucumber and spring onion. Then at least I can have it for lunches at work if I make a glut and save a bit back.

pudding06

can I join in please

can you put me down for £172.64

that is for 5 adults, including one expectant mum, 2 cats and a large dog.:eek:

that is the amount i have after all the bills go out.
I start today, pay day for OH so shopping this evening, but since i want to defrost the freezer sometime this month we will be eating out of there quite a lot.

off to do my meal plans for the next week.

XSpender

7 days into my GC month and I have spent £147.55:eek: and that includes 2 NSDs:o

There are 2 weeks left until we go away in the caravan for 11 days and apart from some fruit and maybe a little milk and bread I have enough to last me. OH is under strict instructions not to let me go into a supermarket until 14th August as this is when i will get the food for our holidays. The bits we need before will be bought from Aldi or the local greengrocers to avoid temptation.

I seem to have accidently sussed out when my local Mr S do their bakery reductions and got 4 packets of their own bakery rolls for 20p each. I even got the buy three get one free discount too!:T Earlier in the week I got choc croissants and rolls for 20p as well.

I like the look of the August Aldi 6 except the avocado. I love mango in smoothies and will now be able to use the tin of coconut milk I have had lurking about for ages. It also freezes well I think, as does celery chopped up ready for soup.

Roast chicken and the works for OH and BIL tonight (Quorn fillets for me:D) which will be rubberised into chicken casserole with a half price tin of campbells soup and chicken and sweetcorn soup off the recipe section on this thread. Pity I can't stretch the quorn fillets too!;)

Enjoy your weekend everyone

XS

redmel1621

lollyfin wrote: »

Morning all,
today I am trying to get 500g of mince to stretch to feeding us 3 times (18 portions), it is in the SC with lentils, oats, grated carrot, 2 onions , some mushrooms, a pepper, 2 tins of toms, 2 tins of water and some dried mixed herbs.
I am hoping that will make bolognaise, a lasagna and chilli (adding kidney beans for this)
I have never made it stretch this far before but SC looking quite full so fingers crossed
Lollyfin

Hi
Well done on stretching the mince to 18 portions!!
I usually make 500g stretch to 12 portions, will soon be 15 portions, although one of those is only tiny:D

Dh nipped to Asda to get batteries yesterday for the baby's play gym and ended up coming back with allsorts....my fault for only having a £20 on me:rolleyes:

Mel x

Jedilibrarian

Hi all
I am mightily impressed by how you all stretch your mince!

So far I have managed to (almost) stick to my shopping list and think I'm on target, I should have a fiver a week for fresh top ups like milk and fruit.

My bargain of the day was in Farmfoods, 1 packet of Amoy straight to Wok noodles (2 portions) for 29p!!! :T I spotted MrMs doing 2 packets for £1.40 odd!

Good luck all!
JL

SiannieLaz

Afternoon All,
Could I please join? My budget for August is £100, that's for 2 adults, 2 cats and a gecko. OH will be responsible for his lizard!! Writing meal plan tonite, and will be hitting Mr T, Mr S, Ald! and local butchers when I work out what is cheapest where! Have got an allotment, so covered for courgettes, potatos and sweetcorn at the mo, other veg coming up.
Loads of fantastic recipe ideas on here, thanks loads
xxx